Olfactory bulb coding of odors, mixtures and sniffs is a linear sum of odor time profiles

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 272-281

  Gupta, Priyanka ^a,b   Albeanu, Dinu F ^b,c   Bhalla, Upinder S ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c WATSON SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; INHALATION; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; SNIFFING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SMELLING; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84923118737     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3913     Document Type: Article

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